If you’ve ever taken a long family car trip, you know that you eventually run out of playlists and podcasts that please everyone. During the summer of 2014, while driving from North Carolina to Michigan, our foursome discovered the art...
by Naomi Blum, MEd T2TGlobal's Education Engagement Coordinator Silk Hope School in Siler City, North Carolina, forms a small, tight-knit community. Often the staff there watch students grow up from kindergarten all the way through eighth grade, witnessing their evolution as people...
by Gabriela Bermingham, second grade dual language teacher in Asheville, NC For the last two years, T2TGlobal has shipped boxes to me full of handicrafts from countries such as Guatemala, Ecuador and Kenya. My students sell the items at our school...
Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala On December 9, 2015, I had the opportunity to participate in a conference about agroscience and culture for the 7th grade students of North Duplin Junior-Senior High School, located in Mount Olive, North Carolina. This opportunity was created by...
Written by Lucía Dávila, Guatemala City, Guatemala The United Nations has invited us all to honor a cessation of hostilities during the International Day of Peace, and to otherwise commemorate the day through education and public awareness. What a better way to accept this invitation...
written by Jennifer McGloneIf you happen to follow the New York Times, you would have read on January 29 an editorial by US Vice President Joe Biden about Central America. Justifying his request for $1 billion in aid, he described this...
written by Sarah Friedman We held our first Open House for Teachers2Teachers-International on January 16, 2015. Our newly renovated office suite, complete with conference room and T2T-I mural, is now officially open to those who would like to come by for a visit. Approximately thirty teachers...
(Charlotte McGlone and Chadd McGlone in Guatemala 2013) The point in a person’s story when everything changes can arrive like a typhoon or a gentle breeze. Sometimes it is only in hindsight that a person can isolate the exact moment when life...